This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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 Editorial:
Unseemly Competition

Floyd E. Bloom
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Editors' Choice

Highlights of the recent literature.
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NetWatch

Best of the Web in science.
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 NEW PRODUCTS

Science 28 January 2000: 671.

 AAAS News & Notes

Science 28 January 2000: 672-673.

News of the Week

2001 BUDGET:
Clinton Seeks 'Major Lift' in U.S. Research Programs

Andrew Lawler
Science 28 January 2000: 558-559.
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PATENTS:
Company Gets Rights to Cloned Human Embryos

Gretchen Vogel
Science 28 January 2000: 559.
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OPTOELECTRONICS:
Blue Semiconductors Settle on Silicon

Robert F. Service
Science 28 January 2000: 561-562.
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GEOLOGY:
Discovering the Original Emerald Cities

Erik Stokstad
Science 28 January 2000: 562.
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CELL BIOLOGY:
Generating New Yeast Prions

Michael Balter
Science 28 January 2000: 562-563.
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SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING:
Publishers Discuss European E-Print Site

Robert Koenig
Science 28 January 2000: 563-564.
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ORGANIC CHEMISTRY:
Cubic Compound Makes a Bigger Bang

Robert F. Service
Science 28 January 2000: 564-565.
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RESTORATION ECOLOGY:
Bringing the Salton Sea Back to Life

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 28 January 2000: 565.
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CLINICAL RESEARCH:
FDA Halts All Gene Therapy Trials at Penn

Eliot Marshal
Science 28 January 2000: 565-567.
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY:
NIH Cuts Deal on Use of OncoMouse

Eliot Marshall
Science 28 January 2000: 567.
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PASTEUR INSTITUTE:
New Chief Promises Renewal and Openness

Michael Balter
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

EDUCATION:
Graduate Educators Struggle to Grade Themselves

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 28 January 2000: 568-570.
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EDUCATION:
Support Grows for British Exercise to Allocate University Funds

Michael Hagmann
Science 28 January 2000: 569.
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SOCIETY FOR INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY MEETING:
An Integrative Science Finds a Home

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 28 January 2000: 570-572.
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ASTROPHYSICS:
Heretical Idea Faces Its Sternest Test

Mark Sincell
Science 28 January 2000: 572-573.
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RESTORATION ECOLOGY:
Returning America's Forests to Their 'Natural' Roots

Keith Kloor
Science 28 January 2000: 573-575.
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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION MEETING:
Quakes Large and Small, Burps Big and Old

Richard A. Kerr
Science 28 January 2000: 576-577.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 E-Knowledge Hullabaloo--Or When Will the Glass Spill Over?

Hans Kende
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 Gene Therapy on Trial

Henry I. Miller
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 Sickle Cell Anemia Therapy: Progress Since Pauling

Alan N. Schechter, Griffin P. Rodgers;, and Bruno J. Strasser
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 Room-Temperature Hydrogen Storage in Nanotubes

Michael J. Heben, Anne C. Dillon;, H. M. Cheng, and M. S. Dresselhaus
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

BIOETHICS:
Knowledge to Heal, Knowledge to Injure

M. Susan Lindee
Science 28 January 2000: 598-599.
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TECHNOLOGY:
Tales of Cooling

David Goodstein
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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

MEDICAL RESEARCH:
Oversight Mechanisms for Clinical Research

Ralph Snyderman and Edward W. Holmes
Science 28 January 2000: 595-597.
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Perspectives

EPIDEMIOLOGY:
Enhanced: Simple Rules with Complex Dynamics

Sir Robert May
Science 28 January 2000: 601-602.
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AIDS:
HIV Infection and Dementia

Suzanne Gartner
Science 28 January 2000: 602-604.
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MATERIALS SCIENCE:
Movies of the Glass Transition

M. D. Ediger
Science 28 January 2000: 604-605.
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EARTH SCIENCE AND EVOLUTION:
Genomics and the Geosciences

Jillian F. Banfield and Charles R. Marshall
Science 28 January 2000: 605-606.
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Review

AIDS as a Zoonosis: Scientific and Public Health Implications

Beatrice H. Hahn, George M. Shaw, Kevin M. De, Cock, and Paul M. Sharp
Science 28 January 2000: 607-614.
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Reports

Tropical Pacific Forcing of Decadal SST Variability in the Western Indian Ocean over the Past Two Centuries

Julia E. Cole, Robert B. Dunbar, Timothy R. McClanahan, and Nyawira A. Muthiga
Science 28 January 2000: 617-619.
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The Role of the Southern Ocean in Uptake and Storage of Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide

Ken Caldeira and Philip B. Duffy
Science 28 January 2000: 620-622.
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Nanotube Molecular Wires as Chemical Sensors

Jing Kong, Nathan R. Franklin, Chongwu Zhou, Michael G. Chapline, Shu Peng, Kyeongjae Cho, and Hongjie Dai
Science 28 January 2000: 622-625.
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Single-File Diffusion of Colloids in One-Dimensional Channels

Q.-H. Wei, C. Bechinger, and P. Leiderer
Science 28 January 2000: 625-627.
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Three-Dimensional Direct Imaging of Structural Relaxation Near the Colloidal Glass Transition

Eric R. Weeks, J. C. Crocker, Andrew C. Levitt, Andrew Schofield, and D. A. Weitz
Science 28 January 2000: 627-631.
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Oxygen Isotopes and Emerald Trade Routes Since Antiquity

Gaston Giuliani, Marc Chaussidon, Henri-Jean Schubnel, Daniel H. Piat, Claire Rollion-Bard, Christian France-Lanord, Didier Giard, Daniel de Narvaez, and Benjamin Rondeau
Science 28 January 2000: 631-633.
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Quantum-Critical Conductivity Scaling for a Metal-Insulator Transition

H.-L. Lee, John P. Carini, David V. Baxter, W. Henderson, and G. Grüner
Science 28 January 2000: 633-636.
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Strength and Breaking Mechanism of Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes Under Tensile Load

Min-Feng Yu, Oleg Lourie, Mark J. Dyer, Katerina Moloni, Thomas F. Kelly, and Rodney S. Ruoff
Science 28 January 2000: 637-640.
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Cloning and Heterologous Expression of the Epothilone Gene Cluster

Li Tang, Sanjay Shah, Loleta Chung, John Carney, Leonard Katz, Chaitan Khosla, and Bryan Julien
Science 28 January 2000: 640-642.
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Complementary Neural Mechanisms for Tracking Items in Human Working Memory

Yang Jiang, James V. Haxby, Alex Martin, Leslie G. Ungerleider, and Raja Parasuraman
Science 28 January 2000: 643-646.
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Inhibitors of Strand Transfer That Prevent Integration and Inhibit HIV-1 Replication in Cells

Daria J. Hazuda, Peter Felock, Marc Witmer, Abigail Wolfe, Kara Stillmock, Jay A. Grobler, Amy Espeseth, Lori Gabryelski, William Schleif, Carol Blau, and Michael D. Miller
Science 28 January 2000: 646-650.
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A Tale of Two Futures: HIV and Antiretroviral Therapy in San Francisco

S. M. Blower, H. B. Gershengorn, and R. M. Grant
Science 28 January 2000: 650-654.
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Redox Signaling in Chloroplasts: Cleavage of Disulfides by an Iron-Sulfur Cluster

Shaodong Dai, Cristina Schwendtmayer, Peter Schürmann, S. Ramaswamy, and Hans Eklund
Science 28 January 2000: 655-658.
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Voltage- and Tension-Dependent Lipid Mobility in the Outer Hair Cell Plasma Membrane

John S. Oghalai, Hong-Bo Zhao, J. Walter Kutz, and William E. Brownell
Science 28 January 2000: 658-661.
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Creating a Protein-Based Element of Inheritance

Liming Li and Susan Lindquist
Science 28 January 2000: 661-664.
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Coupling of Stress in the ER to Activation of JNK Protein Kinases by Transmembrane Protein Kinase IRE1

Fumihiko Urano, XiaoZhong Wang, Anne Bertolotti, Yuhong Zhang, Peter Chung, Heather P. Harding, and David Ron
Science 28 January 2000: 664-666.
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A Simple Model for Complex Dynamical Transitions in Epidemics

David J. D. Earn, Pejman Rohani, Benjamin M. Bolker, and Bryan T. Grenfell
Science 28 January 2000: 667-670.
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Technical Comments

 Questions About Magnetic Lineations in the Ancient Crust of Mars

C. G. A. Harrison;, J. E. P. Connerney, M. H. Acuña, P. J. Wasilewski, N. F. Ness, H. Rème, C. Mazelle, D. Vignes, R. P. Linn, D. L. Mitchell, and P. A. Cloutier;
Science 28 January 2000: 547.
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 Neck Posture of Sauropod Dinosaurs

Paul Upchurch;, K. A. Stevens, and J. M. Parrish;
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